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Friday, October 26, 2012

Omphalotus illudens

Today as I was walking down the side of my yard, 
something caught my eye in the neighbors yard right next to ours....
This orangey clump thingy ! 

They had recently dug up an old rotten stump,
 they threw in some black dirt  and have seeded the area.

 As I got closer to inspect it, I deducted that it was some sort of mushroom

A rather large accumulation of this unique fungi 

I had to know what it was and I'm pretty sure I've got it...
The best part is it's name
So fitting for this time of year
I cant wait to share it with you.....
This mushroom is called a


Jack O' Lantern Mushroom.... I love it, just in time for Halloween!

The information I found on the internet, was helpful in defining this odd looking fungi

*It grows at the base of diciduous trees & stumps
 or on the ground from decaying underground roots.
Bright orange in color
Grows July thru November.

Poisonous.... Yikes

  

3 comments:

  1. Don't stuff it and eat it.

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  2. Great eye, as always, Jackie. We should have been explorers, you and I. Oh, yeah, we are.

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  3. It's really pretty!

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